About Julie - Your Retirement Coach
I'm Julie, Your Retirement Coach.
My work has always centred on people. Listening closely, asking good questions and helping people navigate change.
I have spent more than 20 years working with people and organisations through my career in HR and senior leadership, alongside my therapeutic and coaching work.
Today, I bring those different experiences into my work as a retirement coach.
20+ years in HR and organisations
Understanding work, careers, organisations and the role work can play in our lives.
Therapeutic experience
A deeper understanding of people, relationships, endings, grief and the emotional side of change.
EMCC Senior Practitioner
A coaching approach that keeps you at the centre of the conversation.
How I work
I don't take the conversation anywhere. We start with you at the centre. I listen, ask questions and gently challenge where it feels helpful. We explore what matters to you, what retirement means to you and what you want it to look like. There is no set route and no one right way to retire.
Why retirement coaching?
My interest in retirement coaching grew through my work with older people in therapy and through conversations with people who were already retired.
I began to notice that we don't always give enough thought to the change between working life and what comes next. For some people, retirement is exciting and full of possibility. For others, it can leave them wondering what life will look like without the role, routine and relationships that work has provided.
I have experienced my own version of that change, having left full time corporate work following a company takeover. Bringing together my experience of work, therapy and coaching felt like a natural place to begin helping people explore what retirement means for them.
Who I work with
I work with people who are thinking about retirement, approaching it, or already there.
You may be excited about what is ahead. You may be wondering what happens when work changes, or simply feel that you haven't stopped to think about what you want retirement to be.
Whatever brings you here, we start with where you are.
The only definition of retirement that matters is yours
I don't take the conversation anywhere. We start with you at the centre.
Where are you on your journey? What is important to you? What does retirement mean to you?
There is no one right way to retire.
